"A dedicated follower of nothing." -- graffitit artist in Brick Lane, London, England.Right across the lane from the demon and just down the wall from Wolverine.

RIP Kurt Wagner. You were the character who brought in me into comics, who introduced me and inspired me. Now your death has sent me away again. Wherever you are in the Marvel Universe, I hope its someplace pleasant.

I can't find a picture of it, but I was at Walmart yesterday and they have an Iron man spiral notebook with Nightcrawler on it.....in lenticular! (Except that it also has the Hulk and Iron man with him ....and Iron man's hand is in the way so you can't really just buy the notebook and cut Kurt out) But I can't believe out of all the characters they could have put on an Iron man notebook....they chose Nightcrawler.

"A dedicated follower of nothing." -- graffitit artist in Brick Lane, London, England.Right across the lane from the demon and just down the wall from Wolverine.

RIP Kurt Wagner. You were the character who brought in me into comics, who introduced me and inspired me. Now your death has sent me away again. Wherever you are in the Marvel Universe, I hope its someplace pleasant.

Jeremus, you could buy a Nightcrawler buckle or keychain and glue a magnet on the back.

What this notebook says to me is that Marvel must have BIG plans for Kurt. Why else would he be on the cover of a notebook with two of the biggest, most popular characters in Marveldom?

I wonder why Spidey and Wolvie weren't on it?

It would have to be a ridiculously strong magnet to hold the buckle up, that thing is heavy.

I'm really hoping that that is true, but who knows? It may be in response to the recent cartoon, which Kurt was awesome in, but I would think that because the marketing for this particular notebook is for younger kids those "big plans" would have to be kid-centric. A new cartoon maybe?

I don't think that this particular piece of merchandise is foreshadowing of any 616 Nightcrawler plans, but who knows?

Or... could there be something in a movie or cartoon coming out? Who knows?

~Def.

"A dedicated follower of nothing." -- graffitit artist in Brick Lane, London, England.Right across the lane from the demon and just down the wall from Wolverine.

RIP Kurt Wagner. You were the character who brought in me into comics, who introduced me and inspired me. Now your death has sent me away again. Wherever you are in the Marvel Universe, I hope its someplace pleasant.

Tom Brevoort answers a Nightcrawler question on his formspring in a semi-touching way that honors Dave but also avoids a true response (the way a good Editor who wants to avoid spoilers would).

I miss Nightcrawler--the playful, charming, heroic swashbuckler he was rather than the Catholic-who-gets-stabbed-in-the-chest version that recently died. Might we have a book of past 616 adventures or of him as a pirate in the afterlife? Pretty please?

"A dedicated follower of nothing." -- graffitit artist in Brick Lane, London, England.Right across the lane from the demon and just down the wall from Wolverine.

RIP Kurt Wagner. You were the character who brought in me into comics, who introduced me and inspired me. Now your death has sent me away again. Wherever you are in the Marvel Universe, I hope its someplace pleasant.